Abstract:
The third result area of the Sustainable Business and Employability through HEI's Innovative Pedagogy
(SUSIE) focuses on “enhanced relevance and pedagogical capacity by increasing active (e) pedagogy
competence of teachers.” This was intended to be achieved through various capacity building sessions to
instructors in all three partner institutions, namely: Mwenge Catholic University (MWECAU), Moshi
Corporative University (MOCU) and the former Tumaini University Dar es Salaam College (TUDARCo), now
Dar es Salaam Tumaini University (DarTU). The main focus of this paper is on the perception of students on
innovative pedagogy in facilitating learning at DarTU. The study however looks back on training that was
provided to instructors and their contents and the methods instructors used in implementing these innovative
pedagogical skills so as to get a holistic picture. A desktop review was conducted to collect necessary
information on the trainings, its content and the participants who partook in the training. A questionnaire was
distributed to 273 students in order to get an understanding on their perception of how these innovative
pedagogical skills played a role in their understanding of the respective lessons. SPSS was used to analyse the
data and findings reveal that innovative pedagogical skills not only play a significant role in enabling students
to learn, it also increased class attendance, and improved grades of students in their respective classes. The
study concludes by recommending institutions of higher learning to employ innovative pedagogy in teaching
and to improve infrastructure to facilitate learning.
